Cornwall Second Homes An elegy for Robert Woof, Director of the Wordsworth Trust, who lived partly in Newcastle, partly in Grasmere. The poem’s setting is Portloe in Cornwall.
Cornwall Name-placing A sonnet about place-names in Cornwall; first published in the Oxford Magazine.
Cornwall A Sestina for Sally An imagined walk from Veryan to Portloe with my older sister Sally, who died in 1999 and never saw this beautiful place.
Cornwall Carne A poem about Carne Beach, which is an hour’s walk from our cottage in Veryan Green. This started life as a prose poem, but the rhyme took over and turned it into free rhyming verse.
Cornwall Chatter of Choughs An anthology of poetry and prose celebrating the return of the Cornish Chough to Cornwall; edited by Lucy Newlyn.
Cornwall The Wreck of the Hera A long historical ballad set in Cornwall just before the First World War. Written by Lucy Newlyn, set to music and performed by Stuart Estell.
